Dear Editor:
Your editorial in the May 2 edition headlined “A Bad Example” was, in my opinion, right on target. The law firm’s withdrawal as advocates from an unpopular case violates the example Henry Lord Brougham set for all of us in the profession. In 1820, he defended Queen Caroline against a charge of adultery in a trial before the House of Lords. The popular opinion was that she was unfit to be queen and should be stripped of her crown. Brougham was pressured to withdraw from her defense. He refused. Here is what he said: “ An advocate, by the sacred duty which he owes his client, knows, in the discharge of that office, but one person in the world — that client and none other.”
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